All this week's quotes are from Christian fundamentalists - that is, drooling loonbuckets who just happen to be Christian. And usually American. For literally hundreds of pages more, visit the site "Fundies Say The Darndest Things!". Because they do.
"If u have sex before marriage then in Gods eyes u are married to that person if a man rapes a woman in Gods eyes they are married it sucks for the girl but what can we do lol"
- Gods soldier
"A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However he should not penetrate, sodomising the child is OK.[...] The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister."
- Kirabellydancer
"Why would a heterosexual want anal sex?"
- Twincrier
"If you masturbate thinking about how pretty the flowers are and how you want a puppy, essentially that's not wrong [...] masturbation is something that people in general should stay away from because it's hard not to lust whilst doing it."
- Ben Jamin A Foote
"There will be no sex in Heaven."
- Susan
"Sex is a sin... Skiing is deffinetly not."
- Shyguy
"Oral pleasure is simply masterbation between two people.[...] Ergo, it is IMPOSSIBLE for two women to have sex with each other, it just cannot be done. All they can do is to masterbate each other."
- senor boogie woogie
And that's all the sex you're getting from me today. Also all the religion.
It looks like I was right to turn down the Wall Street Institute in Moscow. There was always something slightly not-quite-right about them that I could never define, or be sure was real.
The way they were honest about the problems they were having or the political situation in Russia - and the way they covered themselves with saintliness that they did so - but only when the problems were obvious and the situation common knowledge. The way their emails were informal and friendly - but as though written according to a book called "How to be informal".
The "groundbreaking" utterly vaccuous in-house teaching method, the somewhat, uh, formulaic website, the extensive use of "affiliates" - something you learn to be wary of.
There was the insistence that teachers enter Russia as tourists, justified - quite plausibly, perhaps accurately - by the labyrinthine Russian bureaucracy of work permits. And the way this was sprung as a surprise late in the day, with the email equivalent of an "Oh didn't you know? I thought everyone knew" expression.
And I suppose the tempting end-of-contract bonus, paid-for insurance and arranged accommodation. There's a saying about things that seem too good to be true.
All sorts of little things I should have thought more about at the time. But now I read this delightful blog, and it turns out the Wall Street Institute have a history. One that involves unpaid teachers, unsatisfied student and lots and lots of bankruptcy. Branches go bankrupt, then reappear under a new front.
I should have known, and it seems I have been lucky.
One thing: I knew the TEFL world was full of bad schools run by crooks and incompetents, but I didn't realise how full. It's like knowing there's a lot of bad films made in Hollywood, and then discovering RottonTomatoes.Com.
ANYWAY (fave word), the time has come to purify and rebirth my laptop. Yes, it's reinstallation time again. Which means it's time to post some of the intriguing pictures I've stumbled upon in the interwebs since the last one.
Coming up next...
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